Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch in Ubuntu 20.04

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How can I fix this error in Ubuntu 20.04?
(base) mona@mona:~/research/animal_pose$ nvcc -V
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2019 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Sun_Jul_28_19:07:16_PDT_2019
Cuda compilation tools, release 10.1, V10.1.243
(base) mona@mona:~/research/animal_pose$ nvidia-smi
Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch

Mona Jalal · Answer

Very strange but restarting the system faded away the error. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/+bug/1888440

Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch in Ubuntu 20.04

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